2:59 PM,
Mar. 3, 2013

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Four days later, he's being buried with full military honors. That's 63 years after the 20-year-old Army enlistee was declared missing while battling Communist Chinese forces in subzero temperatures during the Korean War in December 1950.

Now, at last, Fred Wellbrock can shed a tear for his Uncle Raymond. He's the uncle whose seat was always empty at the family dinners but whose presence was always felt. He was the uncle Fred's dad, Bill Wellbrock, loved as only an older brother can love a kid brother who goes off to war and ...